Tuesday August 25, 2015
I made this comment over the weekend to a the Director of the Socionomic Institute
from the tv review section in the sunday paper regarding Fear the
Walking Dead
Unlike Rick and his crew, the folks we will meet on Fear are not seasoned survivors. They are a diverse group witnessing the implosion of society at its breaking point.
Wow, if all of us had tried to concoct a scenario correct for the mood right now we could not do better than that
Five years after the debut of Walking Dead Fear is billed as
the beginning of what will eventually become the zombie apocalypse
I would say the timing is perfect spot on for the series
Sure enough it set a cable series premiere record Sunday with 10.1 million viewers.
Socionomic Explanation
We are in an 18 year period of economic stagnation. Negative mood is a feature of such an era. Today's choices in entertainment trend to all sorts of monsters from zombies to vampires. The producers of this series have timed it perfectly to coincide with a top in the stock market, positive mood now shifting to negative. We may well see a return of a stock market apocalypse with prices collapsing 50% in the next year. If so this series will mirror the mood of the public.
Professor Elam 
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